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{{Term|COMMUNITY INTERACTIVE THEATER|Interactive Theater provides professionally scripted and improvisational performances addressing difficult issues that impact community. These creative forums are designed to engage community, faculty, staff and students, about social justice. The performance becomes a springboard for dialogue among the characters, facilitator and the audience. This conversation often allows groups to explore difficult, complex issues and contributes to greater community strength, creativity and competence."
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{{Term|COMMUNITY INTERACTIVE THEATER|Community interactive theatre can be seen literary to be the interaction between the theatre and the community. In other words, it is a cultural intervention that combines theatre with social action, aesthetics, pragmatism, and social involvement with intent to generate real change within a community. It is a theatre where the audience, players, scenic and costume designers (and even at times the playwrights) are drawing from the community themselves. Community interactive theatre has metamorphosed into a practice that is quite engaging thereby inviting professional practitioners from the theatre, education and social work. One of the reasons for such invitation is that it has become quite engaging, breaking that imaginary barrier existing between the actors on stage and the audience as the community in this case. This barrier is usually referred to as ‘the fourth wall’ in the field of theatre arts.  
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Interactive theatre is a presentational form that breaks the "fourth wall" separating performer and audience both physically and verbally.
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In traditional theatre, performance is limited to a designated stage area and the action of the play unfolds without any interplay with audience members, who function as passive observers.[citation needed] Conversely, in interactive theatre, performance may happen amidst audience members, and often involves the audience in more active roles. They may be asked to hold props, supply performance suggestions (as in improvisational theatre), share the action's real-world (non-theatrical) setting (as in Site specific theatre), or become characters in the performance. In addition the audience may be asked to participate in altering the course of the play altogether by taking part in a collective vote to help steer the plot in a new direction, as with Augusto Boal's forum theatre. In therapeutic and educational settings, the audience may even be invited to discuss pertinent issues with the performers.
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It is indeed a learning experience for the participating community especially due to the fact that they are part of the solution.
  
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In the originating theatre cultures, over the years, the impact of community theatre has resulted into some different schools of thought. While some see community theatre as a tool that facilitates articulation and social activism within marginalized groups, others see it from the community development angle as an additional practice at the social workers disposal. The latter sees it as a rehabilitative, therapeutic and educational tool for groups with special needs. Additionally, most local actors see it from the bottom-up viewpoint as a theatre that articulates the excluded life experiences of marginalized groups with the intention of creating a difference in their community.
  
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<ref> [http://www.kstoolkit.org/Community+Interactive+Theater www.kstoolkit.org] (27 May 2009), [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_theater Wikipedia] (27 May 2009) </ref>}}
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Despite the differences in interpretation and ideology, it is generally agreed that the main outcome of interactive community theatre is for exchanging knowledge, creative and participatory learning to create change in the community. By this, all the participants are involved in a learning process.
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. <ref> [http://www.kstoolkit.org/Community+Interactive+Theater www.kstoolkit.org] (27 May 2009), [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_theater Wikipedia] (27 May 2009) </ref>}}
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|[http://www.theatreoftheoppressed.org/en/index.php?useFlash=1 International Theatre of the Oppressed Organization]
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|General information on Theatre of the Oppressed.
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|[http://www.theatreoftheoppressed.com/#The%20Workshops International Theatre of the Oppressed Organization/Workshop]
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|Example of a workshop of Theatre of the Oppressed.
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|[http://improvencyclopedia.org/games/index.html Improv Encyclopedia/Games]
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|Sample of exercises useful to improve improvisation skills.
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|[http://improvencyclopedia.org/references/index.html Improv Encyclopedia/References]
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|Reference section related to Improvisation Theatre.
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|[http://improvencyclopedia.org/glossary/index.html Improv Encyclopedia/Glossary]
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|Glossary of terms related to Improvisation Theatre.
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|[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BreakingTheFourthWall Improv wiki/Glossary]
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|Glossary of terms related to Breaking The Fourth Wall.
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|[http://www.jstor.org/stable/25588402 Improv Jstor/Glossary]
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|Glossary of terms related to History of theatre.
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|[http://www.diversecitylondon.org/learning.html Creative Learning]
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|Glossary of terms related to Creative Learning.
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Latest revision as of 12:33, 23 October 2012

Term2.png COMMUNITY INTERACTIVE THEATER
Community interactive theatre can be seen literary to be the interaction between the theatre and the community. In other words, it is a cultural intervention that combines theatre with social action, aesthetics, pragmatism, and social involvement with intent to generate real change within a community. It is a theatre where the audience, players, scenic and costume designers (and even at times the playwrights) are drawing from the community themselves. Community interactive theatre has metamorphosed into a practice that is quite engaging thereby inviting professional practitioners from the theatre, education and social work. One of the reasons for such invitation is that it has become quite engaging, breaking that imaginary barrier existing between the actors on stage and the audience as the community in this case. This barrier is usually referred to as ‘the fourth wall’ in the field of theatre arts.

It is indeed a learning experience for the participating community especially due to the fact that they are part of the solution.

In the originating theatre cultures, over the years, the impact of community theatre has resulted into some different schools of thought. While some see community theatre as a tool that facilitates articulation and social activism within marginalized groups, others see it from the community development angle as an additional practice at the social workers disposal. The latter sees it as a rehabilitative, therapeutic and educational tool for groups with special needs. Additionally, most local actors see it from the bottom-up viewpoint as a theatre that articulates the excluded life experiences of marginalized groups with the intention of creating a difference in their community.

Despite the differences in interpretation and ideology, it is generally agreed that the main outcome of interactive community theatre is for exchanging knowledge, creative and participatory learning to create change in the community. By this, all the participants are involved in a learning process.

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Link icon.png Web Resources
Below you have a list of selected websites where you can find additional information and interesting examples of exercises:
Link Content
International Theatre of the Oppressed Organization General information on Theatre of the Oppressed.
International Theatre of the Oppressed Organization/Workshop Example of a workshop of Theatre of the Oppressed.
Improv Encyclopedia/Games Sample of exercises useful to improve improvisation skills.
Improv Encyclopedia/References Reference section related to Improvisation Theatre.
Improv Encyclopedia/Glossary Glossary of terms related to Improvisation Theatre.
Improv wiki/Glossary Glossary of terms related to Breaking The Fourth Wall.
Improv Jstor/Glossary Glossary of terms related to History of theatre.
Creative Learning Glossary of terms related to Creative Learning.


References

  1. ↑ www.kstoolkit.org (27 May 2009), Wikipedia (27 May 2009)
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